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Book SynopsisReprises foundational issues for identity, power, and justice in the context of what humans take as the known world, especially the social world, and what others impose on them as knowledge of that world in order to serve the interests of a dominating minority over the life chances of the majority.
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Table of ContentsFOREWORD TO THE 1ST ENGLISH EDITION INTRODUCTION FIESTA, SORROW AND KNOWLEDGE A CURSORY AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO BEGIN WITH WITH LIBERATION THEOLOGIES HOW DID I GET INTERESTED IN THIS KNOWLEDGE THING? AND WHOEVER COULD BE BOTHERED BY THIS STUFF? A SHORTAGE OF SUITABLE READING MATERIALS WHAT, AFTER ALL, DO WE MEAN HERE BY "KNOWLEDGE"? SOME KEY CLARIFICATIONS 1 - DOES EXPERIENCE SHAPE OUR KNOWLEDGE? SOME DIMENSIONS OF THIS QUESTION DT Life's Formative Experiences DT Life's Joys and Difficulties DT Loving Acceptance DT Social Norms DT What is "Known and Accepted" DT Certainties DT Power DT Frustrations DT Contradictions and Inconsistencies A BASIC SYNTHESIS OF THE DISCUSSION 2 - CALMLY REFLECTING ON OUR KNOWLEDGE SOME DIMENSIONS OF THIS QUESTION DT Why Make Life More Complicated than it Already Is? DT Why Reflect Deeply on Our Reality? DT Examining the Place from Which We Know DT Studying the History of What We Want to Know DT Contrasting the Familiar with the Different DT Walking A Mile in Somebody Else's Shoes DT Carefully Reviewing Our Convictions and Positions A BASIC SYNTHESIS OF THE DISCUSSION 3 - OPPRESSION, LIBERATION, AND KNOWLEDGE SOME DIMENSIONS OF THIS QUESTION DT Static Visions and Power Dynamics DT Need and Limits of Theories of Oppression DT Who is Responsible for Our Burdens? DT Isn't Knowledge for Intellectuals Only? DT Practical Context and Theoretical Knowledge DT Expanding Our Criteria for Discerning Truth A BASIC SYNTHESIS OF THE DISCUSSION 4 - HOW DO WE EXPRESS AND SHARE KNOWLEDGE SOME DIMENSIONS OF THIS QUESTION DT Language as an Instrument for World-Construction DT Domination and Language Control DT Communicating in Silence DT For a Creative Re-appropriation of Language DT Marginalization, Liberation, and Language DT Common-Folk Language: Elitist versus Populist Assessments DT Beyond the Written Word A BASIC SYNTHESIS OF THE DISCUSSION 5 - RETHINKING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF KNOWLEDGE SOME DIMENSIONS OF THIS QUESTION DT Modern Sciences: Usefulness or Idolatry? DT Reason, Emotions, and Knowledge DT Knowledge as Imaginative Reconstruction of Relationships DT Knowledge of What (Still) Isn't DT Knowing as Pre-judging, Re-cognizing and Co-knowing DT Knowledge as Misrecognition and Exaggeration DT Knowledge as Continuous Transformation DT Another Way of Looking at the Question of Truth and Error DT Knowledge and Reality: Unity and Distinction A BASIC SYNTHESIS AND A REDEFINITION CONCLUSIONS FROM PAST CERTAINTIES TO A TENTATIVE QUEST FOR THE FUTURE SHARED QUEST(ION)S, RATHER THAN PREFABRICATED ANSWERS NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY
